Boing Boing » smuggling http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Two Americans arrested in international narwhal smuggling ring http://boingboing.net/2013/01/04/two-americans-arrested-in-inte.html http://boingboing.net/2013/01/04/two-americans-arrested-in-inte.html#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:38:56 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=204102

Okay, which of you all just got busted for smuggling narwhal tusks? Fess up. It was either one of you, somebody from Reddit, or both, right?

Image: N is for narwhal - finished, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from notahipster's photostream

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